Department of Homeland Security obligations in Louisiana 1st District (LA-01)

DHS × LA-01 is an awarding-agency join, not a disaster score

Louisiana 1st District (LA-01) stores a DHS cell with hundreds of award rows — thicker than MS-04, TX-25, or NC-02. Thicker grain is a file fact. Hurricane, levee, or parish names are not in the packet and will not be used as causes. SpendingVault sums tagged obligations: $3,591,663,172.96 on 445 awards for awarding agency 070 with Louisiana 1st District (LA-01) as place of performance. Treat the pair as a table intersection, not a ranking of districts as winners or losers, and not a claim that 445 awards equal 445 DHS components. A Department of Homeland Security amount tagged to a different district is out of this cell.

DOJ, Defense, or HHS awards that mention preparedness in a description sit outside $3,591,663,172.96 unless those awards also carry agency 070 and LA-01 geography. Mixing those lines would invent a combined figure the packet never computed. Correlation between this obligation sum and border crossings or disaster counts is not causation. Those series are not in the packet. Place of performance as LA-01 locates the tagged awards; it does not deposit $3,591,663,172.96 in a district treasury. Correlation between this obligation sum and storm history is not causation. Storm counts are not in the facts.

445 Homeland Security awards in Louisiana 1st District

Four hundred forty-five DHS awards can include grants, contracts, and continuations. It is not 445 disaster declarations. Mean obligation is about $8,071,153.20 if $3,591,663,172.96 were divided evenly across 445 lines — a mechanical ratio, not a published typical award. Award count is a row count of USAspending awards, including possible modifications. The extract does not split DHS components inside agency 070. Unique recipients are unpublished.

This page will not invent contractor or recipient names. Open Louisiana 1st District for the stored district table and Department of Homeland Security for the national agency shelf. Do not convert 445 into a map of components, ports, or disaster declarations inside Louisiana 1st District. The $3,591,663,172.96 total remains an obligation rollup on tagged awards. Inspect named lines on USAspending.gov rather than inferring an inventory.

LA-01 DHS obligations are not aid already paid

DHS obligations are commitments, not missions already flown. DHS awards often obligate as grants or contracts are recorded and draw as work or assistance is billed. The $3,591,663,172.96 headline is the obligation sum on this district-agency join, not disaster payments already issued or facilities already built. Citing the figure as cash already sent confuses two USAspending concepts. Deobligations and upward adjustments both move the total. No fiscal year is attached to this packet; do not annualize $3,591,663,172.96 into a yearly run rate.

Keep the obligation word on $3,591,663,172.96. Keep both Department of Homeland Security and Louisiana 1st District (LA-01) in the citation. Campaign contributions recorded on FEC.gov do not fund this USAspending cell. Different datasets can share a state abbreviation without sharing a money trail.

What the Louisiana 1st District DHS table omits

The extract has no roster of components, ports, or disaster declarations. Facts remain $3,591,663,172.96, 445 awards, agency 070 (Department of Homeland Security), Louisiana 1st District (LA-01), and a district-wide book of $15,981,764,617.41. This page will not invent a contractor league table. Sibling district-agency joins are separate obligation totals, not a better or worse score.

Louisiana 1st District places LA-01 among other congressional districts. Department of Homeland Security places agency 070 among other awarding agencies. Louisiana federal spending is the statewide shelf. All spending ties indexes other pairs. Mixing those shelves would invent a share of Louisiana spending or of Department of Homeland Security's national book the packet never computed. The $3,591,663,172.96 figure is the tagged pair only. Correlation between this obligation sum and storm history is not causation. Storm counts are not in the facts.

Citing Department of Homeland Security in LA-01

A clean footnote names Department of Homeland Security (agency 070), Louisiana 1st District (LA-01), $3,591,663,172.96 in obligations, and 445 awards on USAspending.gov. Keep the obligation word. Do not relabel 445 as a census of components, ports, or disaster declarations. Quote the district overlay if you need every awarding agency in LA-01, and quote the agency page if you need Department of Homeland Security without a district filter. About 22.5% of the $15,981,764,617.41 district book sits on this agency in the extract; that percentage is a derived ratio, not a separate published table.

A ties page exists because two tables meet. One table is awarding agency 070. The other is congressional district place of performance as LA-01. The headline $3,591,663,172.96 is the obligation sum on that intersection. It is not a forecast, not a budget request, and not an outlay. It is also not a claim that Department of Homeland Security caused Louisiana 1st District's economy to grow, or that the district caused the awards to exist. If a later ingest moves the live overlay, prefer the overlay when the table and this snapshot diverge.

Questions

How much did DHS obligate in Louisiana 1st District?

USAspending.gov shows $3,591,663,172.96 in obligations for Department of Homeland Security (agency 070) with Louisiana 1st District (LA-01) as place of performance, across 445 awards. The sum is a commitment total, not outlays and not the district's entire public-safety budget. Other agencies in the district sit outside this join.

Do 445 awards mean 445 LA-01 disaster declarations?

No. Award count is a row count of USAspending awards and can include continuations. It is not a census of components, ports, or disaster declarations. The packet does not name recipients. Mean obligation of about $8,071,153.20 is a quotient, not a typical published award. See Louisiana 1st District for stored lines.

Is this Louisiana's entire DHS obligation book?

No. The join is awarding agency 070 crossed with LA-01 place of performance. The district-wide book on this extract is $15,981,764,617.41. Related agencies and other districts are not inside $3,591,663,172.96 unless they also carry both keys. Correlation between this obligation sum and storm history is not causation. Storm counts are not in the facts.

Is the LA-01 DHS total already paid as disaster assistance?

Not on this metric. Obligations are recorded commitments. Outlays are payments from the Treasury. The $3,591,663,172.96 headline is the obligation rollup in SpendingVault's extract. Draws and remaining balances are not published in this packet. Remaining balances are not in the facts.